Giangrosso v. Straub

Plaintiff, the lessor of premises occupied by defendant, filed suit in the civil district court for the parish of Orleans and obtained an order of provisional seizure of certain personal property on the leased premises. The sheriff, in execution of the writ, attempted to sell the property. On the day of the sale a representative of the Loubat Glassware & Cork Company, Limited, called the attention of the sheriff to the fact that it was the holder of a chattel mortgage on some of the movable property which he proposed to sell. The sheriff, without any other authority to do so, segregated the…